The instant the Clear Sky Hammer collided with the beam cannon, the web between Tang Hao's thumb and forefinger split open, and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth.
The enormous Clear Sky Hammer nearly flew out of his hands.
Qian Xunji was, after all, a Titled Douluo, and this was his Ninth Soul Skill. Tang Hao had used every means at his disposal just to barely hold it off.
The price was that the head of the Clear Sky Hammer shattered, leaving Tang Hao pale and utterly drained.
But none of that was the point. The real focus was Ah Yin, whom Tang Hao was protecting behind him, and the baby in her arms.
The Heavenly Curtain deliberately turned its focus to the mother and child.
"Everyone can see clearly that Tang Hao was obviously unable to hold back Qian Xunji's Ninth Soul Skill."
"In fact, Tang Hao could only withstand it without using Ring Explosion because Ah Yin helped him from behind."
"But here's the important part: while helping Tang Hao, Ah Yin forgot about the child in her arms."
"Her real child had only just been born. Although Ah Yin was protecting him, a fragile baby couldn't withstand the shock wave from Qian Xunji's explosion."
"Actually, the real Tang San had already died at this point!"
At those words, Tang Xiao shuddered all over.
The real Tang San had been killed by the shock wave?
That couldn't be right. Wasn't Otherworldly Tang San supposed to have been reincarnated as Tang Hao's son, carrying the memories of his previous life?
Otherwise, how could anyone explain why Tang San had both Blue Silver Grass and the Clear Sky Hammer as his Martial Souls?
"Look closely at the expression on the baby's face in Ah Yin's arms. See? When the shock wave reached him, he visibly jolted, then stopped moving altogether."
After the Heavenly Curtain finished speaking, the scene shifted. A strange white light suddenly appeared in the distance.
After surveying the area, the strange light flew straight toward the baby in Ah Yin's arms and entered his body through his forehead.
"Look, didn't a strange white light suddenly appear in the sky and enter the baby's body?"
"That strange white light was Otherworldly Tang San's soul. After the real Tang San died, he immediately took over his body—he possessed him."
The scene moved on, and sure enough, once the light had merged with the baby, the child in Ah Yin's arms began to show expression again. He even started wriggling, as if getting used to his new body.
And Tang Hao and Ah Yin, in the scene, didn't notice a thing.
"I have to say, Tang San possessed that body at just the right time. It was as if it had all been predestined."
"The battle happened to kill the real Tang San, leaving him with a baby's body that was the easiest to adapt to."
"And Tang Hao and Ah Yin happened to be fighting Qian Xunji, so they didn't notice him taking over the body."
"That was how Tang San successfully possessed the body of a genius with Twin Martial Souls, taking the most important step toward becoming both the Sea God and the Asura God."
As the Heavenly Curtain's voice slowly faded, the entire Douluo Continent was plunged into deep shock.
Yu Xiaogang murmured in disbelief,
"So Little San really did possess this body."
Flender, standing nearby, wore an equally grave expression. He swallowed hard.
"I can't believe something like this happened. And who would have thought that the wife of Tang San's father, the Clear Sky Douluo, was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who had cultivated into human form?"
At that thought, Flender abruptly looked toward Zhao Wuji. Zhao Wuji looked back at him.
The two stared at each other, their faces betraying a crisis of faith.
"No, that can't be!"
Zhao Wuji had once been beaten black and blue by Tang Hao, a Titled Douluo, while Flender had witnessed it with his own eyes.
They had both personally seen the Soul Rings beneath Tang Hao's feet.
Tang Hao's ninth Soul Ring had unquestionably been a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
And Tang Hao's wife had been a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. On top of that, according to Yu Xiaogang, Tang San had grown up with only Tang Hao by his side.
His mother had always been missing, without a trace.
Th-this was terrifying to think about!
Could it be that Tang Hao had killed his own wife to take her Soul Ring?
Meanwhile, the atmosphere among Tang San's group at Shrek had also grown tense and strange.
Everyone except Xiao Wu, including Dai Mubai, moved away from Tang San and eyed him warily.
They had recovered from their initial shock and were gradually realizing that something about Tang San was wrong.
Tang San wasn't the original person. He had possessed someone else's body.
The people hearing about this for the first time couldn't help feeling frightened and uneasy.
Everyone except Xiao Wu, that is.
As far as Xiao Wu was concerned, it didn't matter whether Tang San had possessed someone or what else he had done. As long as he was the Tang San who had grown up with her and could help her get revenge, that was enough.
Besides, she had kept her own secret hidden, too. It turned out that her Third Brother's mother was also a Soul Beast.
What a coincidence!
Now, perhaps Tang San's father wouldn't oppose her and Tang San being together after all.
Tang San, the person at the heart of it all, had watched the Heavenly Curtain expose everything about him from beginning to end. He was practically livid.
Was the Heavenly Curtain even human?
It had shown his previous life and exactly how he had come to the Douluo Continent, in complete detail.
Even he didn't know all of that as clearly as the Heavenly Curtain did!
And it had even revealed that his worthless drunk of a father was a Titled Douluo.
The thought brought Tang San no joy. Instead, he was consumed by deep fear.
If Tang Hao was a Titled Douluo, then he must have seen everything Tang San had secretly done since childhood.
Even his practice of the Tang Sect's supreme techniques—had Tang Hao seen that, too?
The 139th article of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record: Anyone who secretly learns the sect's techniques has earned the right to die.
No, wait. The Heavenly Curtain had already revealed that he, Tang San, had possessed the body of Tang Hao's real son.
Did that mean he was the one who had earned the right to die?
At the thought, Tang San's heart sank.
He... he didn't want to die yet!
Meanwhile, Tang Hao felt the same way as Tang San.
These two father and son, bound by the same body, were both wretched men cast adrift by fate.
Faced with the naked truth, Tang Hao couldn't bring himself to accept it.
He simply couldn't believe that the son he had raised all these years wasn't really his son.
The truth was that a middle-aged man had possessed his son's body, then spent every day pretending to be his son and calling him "Dad."
The thought made Tang Hao's heart feel as if it were being torn apart.
It hurt. It hurt so much!
But that wasn't what upset Tang Hao most.
At that moment, the voice of the Heavenly Curtain rang out again, plunging him into despair:
"But Tang San and Tang Hao, this father and son who were both born out of wedlock, really are a fitting pair. Like father, like son—birds of a feather flock together."
"For example, Tang Hao was the one who planned the whole chain of events that led Qian Xunji to capture Ah Yin and the shock wave to kill his own son."
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